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Gopher Extermination La Mirada

Gopher Control in La Mirada, CA

If moles or gophers are causing damage at your La Mirada property and need Gopher Extermination service call Rodent Guys to save your yard. Our Gopher Extermination service in La Mirada, CA is offered with pet friendly methods with well trained trappers. Please dial us at 909-599-4711 to service Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties.

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Any gopher control La Mirada Ca needs is from the pocket gopher that is the same as a gopher. A lot of harm is to new plants because they are immature, un-established therefore it will not take much gnawing for one gopher to destroy or devour it. Grass can also be seriously effected by gophers with damages from both feeding on the turf plus the soil forced on top and staying on top of the turf that smothers it.

Big trees takes eating for a while so not to worry. Smaller trees may be destroyed by the gopher right away simply because the roots supplying the life for the tree are immature. You will quickly realize certain branches of trees or bushes begin to die when ever gophers are harming it. This is a result of the roots providing life for that an area of the plant is harmed or killed because of the gopher and no longer supplying life to that section of the plant that you are raising.

How Do I Know if I need service?

Gopher mounds with exit hole

Gopher Mound

Pocket gopher burrows are almost always filled with dirt like in the picture above. This helps to set them apart from other tunneling rodents like voles. They can make 1-3 mounds a day which is why you want to remove gophers right away on your landscape. Gopher removal (not gofer removal ) is usually done by a gopher specialist pest control company with experience with how to eradicate gophers for your lawn. Always make sure they have an agriculture pest control license as required by California state law in and not only a license for structural pest control.

Damage and reasons we need Removal

Gophers eat plants, roots of trees, flowers and vegetables on your garden – if it’s a plant they probably will eatwll consume|like} it. Most damage is to new plants because they are young, un-established and it doesn’tdoes not} take much for a gopher to destroy or eat it. Lawn is also highly effected by gophers with destruction from both the eating of the lawn and the dirt pushed on top and staying on the turf which smothers it.

Big trees can take chewing for a while so not to worry. Smaller trees can be killed by a gopher right away because the root system supplying the life to the tree are undeveloped. You will see certain branches of trees or bushes begin to die off when gophers are damaging them. This is caused by the roots supplying that part of the plant is damaged or killed by the gopher and no longer supplying nutrients to that part of the plant you are growing in.

The common control methods for gopher extermination are burrow fumigants, baiting, burrow blasting, Tunnel Fill, and trapping. Trapping, Tunnel Fill and baiting are methods that a property owner can use with limited success. Burrow Blasting is normally operated by a company dedicated to gophers (we have a Varmint Getter for burrow blasting) because of the cost of the machine.

Burrow fumigants are extremely effective but are restricted materials in, only available to and used by licensed professionals like us. Burrow fumigants are not the same as the smoke bombs from the hardware store which are not very effective.

Poison baits used by agriculture pest control companies are much higher concentration and effective than what is obtainable to a homeowner. The main reason to hire a gopher expert is the knowledge of what method to use for each situation and proper placement of fumigants and or bait for effective removal of gophers.

Using water to flush them to surface

Flooding can work on farms where the entire field is flooded and there is nowhere for a gopher to go. On your property you are going to try to flood the gopher with a garden hose in the hole. The problem is the water typically never fills up the tunnel system and the gopher simply raises his nose above the water line until you start to worry about the water bill in La Mirada and shut it off.

Repellent

There are no repellents in La Mirada available at the present time that have been shown to provide good Gopher Extermination. Several plants, such as gopher purge and cantor bean have been said to offer control, but these claims have never been proved. If they really worked to get rid of gophers you would not be reading this site.

Keep gophers out of your yard using physical barriers can be effective for small projects. Any large project, such as placing fencing around the area of your backyard would be cost prohibitive. Plus this would at best only give short-term control. At some point gophers find a way in.

Raised flower beds can be protected by placing a 1/4 inch galvanized hardware cloth below the bed and securing it to the 2×6 wood frame before filling with soil in your yard.

Calif DFG position

When gophers are causing damage to you La Mirada property, they are allowed to be controled by all allowable method. Allowable ways include gopher traps and poison bait used by the owner or tenant of the property. Any poison bait used to kill gophers must be labeld for gophers on the product label and follow the instructions carefully.

Rodent Guys Gopher Services

We will come out to provide Gopher Extermination services in La Mirada using the best ways based on each property such as fumigation. Depending on tunnel locations poison baits are used instead of fumigation of tunnels. Gopher Extermination is a tough job for the novice, we have a lot of experience with it.

Captured two Gophers

This is founder of Rodent Guys, Nick Nielsen, with two gophers, one caught in a gopher trap and one killed with bait. Nick and his team of Gopher Extermination experts will be showing off trophies like these at the end of your project.

We Service Most areas in the following counties:

Los Angeles County, Ventura, San Bernardino County, Orange County and Riverside County